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ANTHONY WALTER BAYARD. 

[To accompany Bill H. E. No. 521.] 



April 17, 1858. 



Mr. Anderson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the 

following 

REPORT. 

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to loliom were referred the memorial 
and accompanying papers in case of Anthony Walter Bayard, asking 
an increase of invalid pension, report: 

That at the 2cl session of the 33d Congress, a report and bill for his 
benefit was introduced, your committee will now adopt that bill and 
report, and submit the same to the House : 

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom ivas referred the petition 
of Anthony Walter Bayard, have had the same under cojisideration 
and report : 

That the petitioner was a private in the war of 1812, and served in 
the wars with the Indians in the northwest, and that he was severely 
wounded upon three occasions, by which he is wholly disabled, and 
for which he was placed on the pension roll, in 1844, at the rate of 
eight dollars per month. He is now poor, very helpless and decrepit. 
He was a very daring and valuable soldier. At the siege of Fort 
Harrison the Indians succeeded in setting fire to one of the block- 
houses, which communicated to the roof of the soldiers' barracks. 
Tlie commanding officer called for volunteers to go upon the roof, in 
point-blank shot of the enemy's rifles, and extinguish the fire. The 
petitioner and another soldier volunteered, and mounted the burning 
roof. His companion was instantly shot dead, and the petitioner 
badly wounded. He succeeded in extinguishing the fire. This ser- 
vice was, at the time, regarded by the officers as most hazardous and 
of great value to the American forces. The petitioner claims that his 
disability is total, rendering him dependent ; that it results from 
wounds received whilst rendering most gallant, hazardous, and valu- 
able services ; and that, in such a case, a pension of eight dollars per 
month is not sufficient. If, for gallant services and entire disability, 
it were justifiable, by special enactment, to grant relief beyond the 
provisions of the general pension law, in any case, the committee 
know of no case more meritorious than that of the petitioner. The 
committee will not so recommend, but report a bill for such action as 
the judgment of the House may approve. 






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